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Poster: Jim Carlile Date: Sep 30, 2008 1:28am
Forum: texts Subject: A new search engine for the Google-Michigan text archive

In case anyone's interested, somebody worked up a clever new search engine for the University of Michigan's copies of its Google book and journal scans.

http://roytennant.com/proto/hathi/

The advantage of this over Google Books is that UM has put ALL of their full-view PD copies online, including many that Google will not. This includes scans of journal reprints published post-1923 where the content is in the PD but the reprints were sold much later.

Google won't do this. Their 'Books' is seriously deficient in the journals department, UM is not.

A great alternative to Google's incomplete site (and maybe it will work internationally...?) Now if only California will do something with their own scans.

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Poster: anthonypaul Date: Sep 30, 2008 6:16am
Forum: texts Subject: Re: A new search engine for the Google-Michigan text archive

Works in the UK.

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Poster: Jim Carlile Date: Oct 1, 2008 12:11am
Forum: texts Subject: Re: A new search engine for the Google-Michigan text archive

Does it block some PD books internationally, the way Google does? I would doubt it.